Plenary Speakers

Miklos Cssorgo is distinguished research professor at school of Mathematics and
Statistics, Carleton University. He has more than 50 years of continuous publications in
Stochastics (Probability and Statistics) since 1962. He has won several honours
including Canada Council Fellow, Killam Senior Research Scholar
, and Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.

Markos Koutras is Professor of Statistics and Applied Porobability in the Department of
Statistics and Insurance Science, University of Piraeus. From November 2013 he is Dean
of the School of Finance and Statistics, University of Piraeus, Greece. His research
interest is in Asymptotic theory, Combinatorial distributions, Multivariate analysis
and Reliability theory.

Jeffrey Rosenthal is a professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of
Toronto. He received his PhD from Harvard University in 1992. He was awarded the
CRM-SSC Prize in 2006, the COPSS Presidents' Award in 2007, and teaching awards in
1991 and 1998. His book for the general public, Struck by Lightning: The Curious World
of Probabilities.

Elena Yarovaya graduated from the Mechanics and Mathematics Faculty of Moscow State University in 1982 in the department of probability theory,
and until 2001 worked as a senior researcher at the research centers of the Ministry of Health. The results of her work
have been published in the journals of "Theoretical and Mathematical Physics", "Progress of Mathematical Sciences",
and many other international conferences.